Over direct wire (Cipher)
To the Caucasian Bureau of the Central Committee

A stubborn struggle with the White Poles still lies ahead. The Central Committee can therefore allocate only a limited number of workers to the Wrangel front. The Caucasian Bureau of the Central Committee must in the strictest manner account for and distribute its forces, with the Wrangel front as the principal task. It is necessary to help strengthen the political department, the special department, the tribunals of the armies, raise the combat capacity of the units by assigning the best Communists. Report to the Central Committee on the measures taken.

19 August. Lenin*

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Written 19 August 1920

First published in 1942

in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from the typescript